Sources: Philip Morris Officials Face Questions in
Federal Probe

Dow Jones News Services

Updated Aug. 31, 1996 11:42 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- Top Philip Morris Cos. executives have received subpoenas as part of a federal grand jury criminal investigation about whether the company misled Congress and regulators about the effects of nicotine, the Associated Press reported.

FBI agents delivered subpoenas to Philip Morris officials as a grand jury in Washington investigates whether tobacco executives lied to Congress about nicotine's addictiveness, according to a person familiar with the investigation, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The subpoenas...